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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8187454 | Degradation detector and detecting method A degradation detector of an exhaust gas sensor is disclosed. The detector comprises a first heater resistance estimator (16) for estimating a resistance of a heater that heats the exhaust gas sensor, based on a device resistance of the exhaust gas sensor; a ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7955494 | Gas sensor control apparatus The gas sensor control apparatus is for controlling a gas sensor including a sensor element having a solid electrolyte layer, and first and second electrodes located on opposite sides of the solid electrolyte layer, the first electrode serving as a gas detecting ele... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7901562 | Oxygen sensor deterioration detection method A deterioration detection apparatus for an oxygen sensor is able to detect an abnormality of the oxygen sensor constantly with high precision, without being affected by the temperature characteristic of the element impedance. The apparatus applies a voltage V to the... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7481915 | Exhaust gas temperature measurement utilizing an exhaust gas sensor A system for determining a temperature of exhaust gases from an engine is provided. The system includes an exhaust gas sensor having an electric heating coil. The sensor communicates with exhaust gases from the engine. The system further includes an electrical circu... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7316767 | Gas sensing element Provided is a multilayer gas sensing element having a high measurement accuracy and less susceptible to a leakage current. The element comprises an oxygen pump cell for adjusting an oxygen concentration in a measured gas chamber, a sensor cell for detecting a specif... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7294252 | NOx sensor and methods of using the same Disclosed herein are NOx sensors and methods of using the same. In one embodiment, a method for sensing NOx comprises: contacting a first NOx electrode with the gas, contacting a second NOx electrode with the gas, determining a NO2 emf between the first N... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7285204 | Apparatus for detecting deterioration of air-fuel ratio sensor In detecting a deterioration of an air-fuel ratio sensor, a sensor output change speed integrated value is calculated when an element temperature of a solid electrolyte is stabilized at a low temperature. Successively, a sensor output change speed integrated value i... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7202794 | Flame detection system A flame detection system includes a plurality of sensors for generating a plurality of respective sensor signals. The plurality of sensors includes a set of discrete optical radiation sensors responsive to flame as well as non-flame emissions. An Artificial Neural N... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193178 | Method and apparatus for controlling the heating of an oxygen sensor in a motor vehicle Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling the heating of an oxygen sensor in a motor vehicle. The apparatus comprises an oxygen sensor for measuring oxygen levels in exhaust gases of a motor vehicle. The oxygen sensor comprising a heater rod, an outer elect... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7132623 | Luminescence sensing system for welding A method and apparatus can adaptively control a pulsed power arc welding process. A trainable system can recognize an empirical transfer mode from a signal emitted during an arc welding pulse and determine a pulsed power parameter set to produce a modified transfer ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7128818 | Method and apparatus for monitoring gases in a combustion system A method and apparatus for monitoring and measuring gas concentrations in combustor applications is provided, wherein the apparatus is a gas sensor having a plurality of electrodes cooperating with a single electrolyte cell for detecting the presence and concentrati... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7124622 | Sensing element for determining a physical property of a gas mixture A sensing element for determining a physical property of a gas mixture, in particular the exhaust gas of internal combustion engines, includes a sensor element, arranged in a housing and connected to at least one electrical cable, as well as a molded piece, which se... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7108185 | Apparatus and method for management of calibration data An apparatus comprising a device having calibration data associated therewith, and a calibration tag placed on the device, the calibration tag having encoded thereon the calibration data or a locator identifying where the calibration data can be found. A process com... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7066009 | Gas sensor In a gas sensor internally including a sensing element for measuring a specific gas concentration of a measured gas, an outer surface thereof has a measured gas surface exposed to a measured gas and an atmosphere surface exposed to the atmosphere, and at least a por... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7036982 | Method and apparatus to control an exhaust gas sensor to a predetermined termperature The invention provides a control strategy and a control system to control a gas sensor to a target operating temperature. It relies upon both feedback and model-based feedforward control systems to achieve and then maintain the sensor at the target operating tempera... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7017567 | Device and method for measuring element temperature of air-fuel ratio sensor, and device and method for controlling heater of air-fuel ratio sensor A device according to the present invention is provided with element temperature measurement voltage application circuit for temporarily applying a predetermined voltage for element temperature measurement to a sensor element of an air-fuel ratio sensor equipped to ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6939037 | Determining the temperature of an exhaust gas sensor by means of calibrated internal resistance measurement For achieving a highest possible measuring accuracy of a circuit for measuring the internal resistance of an exhaust-gas sensor, a method and a circuit for measuring the internal resistance R1 (10) of an electrochemical cell (12) are provided fo... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6916415 | Heater drive circuit and drive method for a gas sensor A method and device for driving a gas sensor includes a three-point circuit determining a temperature of a gas sensor having a resistive heating element by determining a measuring current with a measuring resistor flowing through the resistor in a measuring phase. T... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6849174 | Gas concentration measuring apparatus designed to minimize error component contained in output A gas concentration measuring apparatus which has a gas sensor designed to measure, for example, the concentrations of O2 and HOx contained in exhaust emissions of an automotive engine is provided. The apparatus includes a signal processing cir... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6660143 | Oxygen sensor A sensor structure having a metallic terminal member. The metallic terminal member 23 includes press portions 23d and 23e, which press the heating member 3 in a direction intersecting the center axis of a hollow portion 2a of an oxygen detection element 2... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6649041 | Deterioration detector for exhaust gas sensor and method of detecting deterioration The invention provides a deterioration detector for an exhaust gas sensor capable of detecting an amount of change with age of an internal resistance and conducting deterioration judgment taking into consideration fluctuation between products and temperat... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6592731 | Amperometric oxygen sensor A low cost amperometric oxygen sensor which utilizes a plurality of oxygen ion conductor layers interposed between a plurality of oxygen-porous electrode layers is provided. Oxygen from a sample gas enters the sensor at porous cathode electrodes, is pumpe... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6547955 | Gas concentration measuring apparatus designed to minimize error component contained in output A gas concentration measuring apparatus which has a gas sensor designed to measure, for example, the concentrations of O2 and HOx contained in exhaust emissions of an automotive engine is provided. The apparatus includes a signal processing cir... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6533921 | Apparatus for detecting concentration of nitrogen oxide Apparatus for detecting the NOx concentration includes a first measurement chamber 20 communicating with the gas under measurement via a diffusion rate defining layer 4d and a second measurement chamber 26 communicating with the first measurement chamber ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6524467 | Method for adjusting output characteristics of a gas sensing element based on application of electric power to this sensing element Each gas sensing element, with a measured gas sensing electrode and a reference gas sensing electrode provided on opposite surfaces of a solid electrolytic body, is manufactured to have a limit current value whose initial value is offset from a target val... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6497808 | Gas sensor A gas sensor includes a sensor element. The sensor element has a solid electrolytic member, a measurement electrode, and a reference electrode. The measurement electrode is provided on the solid electrolytic member, and is exposed to a measurement gas. Th... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6451187 | Air/fuel ratio sensor A detector for an air/fuel ratio sensor, which is comprised of a structure formed by stacking an oxygen reference electrode, a dense zirconia solid electrolyte, a negative electrode, a porous zirconia solid electrolyte, a positive electrode and a porous p... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6365021 | Oxygen sensor A detecting element is configured such that a second electrode is disposed on one side of a plate-like first electrode with a first solid electrolyte layer positioned therebetween and a third electrode is disposed on the other side of the first electrode ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6342151 | Method of using a gas sensor A method of measuring oxygen and/or the air-to-fuel lambda ratio and hydrocarbons and/or carbon monoxide in gas mixtures using a gas sensor is provided. To reliably measure a plurality of gaseous components, the sensor is provided with a reference electro... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6294075 | Method of controlling and diagnosing the heater of an engine exhaust gas composition sensor A method of controlling and diagnosing the heater of a sensor sensitive to the composition of the exhaust gas of an engine; the sensor having at least an electrolytic cell sensitive to oxygen ions, and supplying information relative to the ratio of the mi... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6277267 | Gas sensor A method for measurement of nitrogen oxides using a gas sensor. To reliably measure nitrogen oxides, the sensor has a reference electrode representing a constant oxygen partial pressure, at least two electrode pairs, with common a electrode associated wit... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6270651 | Gas component sensor The present invention is an electrolyte composition in bulk, thick film and sputtered thin film form forming with different metal sensing and reference electrodes a highly stable gas component concentration sensor.... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6267857 | Oxygen sensor with a heater The invention reduces the activation time of an oxygen sensor with a heater through rapid heating of an oxygen sensing element. A shaft-like heating member is inserted and fixed into an oxygen sensing element of a hollow shaft-like member while a terminal... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6254765 | Method of regulating the temperature of a sensor A method for regulating the temperature of a sensor for determining an oxygen concentration in gas mixtures, in particular in exhaust gases of internal combustion engines, where a detection voltage that corresponds to the oxygen concentration and is suppl... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6228252 | Apparatus for detecting concentration of nitrogen oxide Apparatus for detecting the NOx concentration includes a first measurement chamber 20 communicating with the gas under measurement via a diffusion rate defining layer 4d and a second measurement chamber 26 communicating with the first measurement chamber ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6214207 | Method and apparatus for measuring oxygen concentration and nitrogen oxide concentration Using a sole Nox sensor Nox concentration and oxygen concentration are measured accurately. A measurement device for measuring NOx concentration and oxygen concentration comprises an NOx sensor 2 having a first measurement chamber 20 communicating via a d... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6120677 | Temperature control for all range oxygen sensor A constant current Iconst is applied to an electromotive force cell which is interposed between a gap (measurement chamber) of a fixed atmosphere and an oxygen reference chamber of a constant oxygen content, for measurement of a resistance value of the el... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6045673 | Gas sensor Disclosed is a gas sensor comprising a first internal space for making communication with the external space via a first diffusion rate-determining section, a first electrochemical pumping cell for controlling the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere in... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6036841 | Method for measuring nitrogen oxide A method for measuring nitrogen oxide (NOx) in a gas by decomposing NOx in the gas and measuring an amount of oxygen generated by the decomposition includes: introducing the gas to a first inner space under a first diffusion resistance and connected with ... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5976335 | Gas sensor having a function for minimizing heater leak current Disclosed is a gas sensor comprising a main pumping cell including a solid electrolyte layer contacting with an external space, and an inner pumping electrode and an outer pumping electrode formed on inner and outer surfaces of the solid electrolyte layer... | 11/02/1999 |
